A thief told a colleague at a Co Tipperary drugs manufacturer that he needed just two Valium for a pain in his head — but he ended up stealing 6,000.

A Pakistani-born domestic worker has been awarded €66,794 after she alleged at a tribunal that if she complained, the couple she was working for threatened that the police would come and get her.

FOR centuries those who were certain that they knew best comforted the struggling, the doubtful, the poor and the not-so-poor with the promise that the meek shall inherit the earth. 

An unfair dismissal claim taken against An Post by a former employee who had wrongly assigned post for shredding has been rejected by the Workplace Relations Commission.

A US cyber security firm has been ordered to pay a former senior director of its Cork operations €105,000 for his unfair dismissal.

Up to 500 hospital consultants have lodged papers in court seeking compensation for the State’s failure to pay higher salaries agreed in 2008, according to the Irish Medical Organisation (IMO).

The world-renowned Coolmore Stud has been ordered by an Employment Appeals Tribunal to pay €18,000 to a former stable hand who was dismissed after he took €220.

The move to hold employment hearings behind closed doors could be in breach of constitutional requirement that justice should be done in public, an expert has warned.

Legal action by hundreds of hospital consultants claiming a breach of contract over pay will be “vigorously defended”, the Department of Health says.

The State is facing a bill for hundreds of millions of euro for monies, which it withheld from hospital consultants eight years ago.

Sandra Mahon didn’t set out to make history in her job as a food demonstrator, but she did just that in relation to employment law.

A former security manager suffered a heart attack after being unfairly dismissed by Tesco for removing a toy from one of its stores without paying for it, a tribunal has heard.

A tribunal has awarded €5,400 to a worker who was unfairly dismissed after being involved in a horseplay incident in which he made a reflex reaction to being struck in the groin area with a towel.

Tribunal finds woman was unfairly dismissed over ’drag-yourself-around’ instruction to her colleague

A company van driver involved in a number of road rage incidents and eventually convicted of careless driving has been awarded €12,000 after winning his unfair dismissal case.

A fitness instructor, whose duties included life-guarding and teaching aqua aerobics, could not swim.

Don’t expect others in the public service to rally behind the hospital consultants, writes Health Correspondent Catherine Shanahan

A woman has been awarded €12,400 on behalf of her husband after he passed away before his case for age discrimination could be heard.

A former care worker, who was convicted and fined for kicking an autistic man while trying to break up a fight between residents of a Cork care home, has lost his appeal against being fired from his job.

An engineer, who was fired for wearing gloves near a machine on the factory floor, has been awarded €32,000.

The managing director of a Cork courier firm must pay out €7,500 to his former partner and mother of their grown-up daughter in an unfair dismissal case.

A tribunal has found that the owners of Tara Mines in Co Meath were disproportionate in hiring a private investigator to place an injured worker under covert surveillance for a 13-day period.

The State’s employment rights watchdog had a 20% increase in the number of calls to its customer service line last year and also increased the number of prosecutions carried out against employers.

A manager at a franchised Supermac’s outlet in Limerick lost her senior post after failing to inform her boss of two incidents that cost the firm €2.75.

Universal health insurance has been effectively scrapped after the newly appointed Health Minister Simon Harris has been told it is too costly to implement.

Sliderobes Ireland Ltd has been ordered to pay almost €16,500 to a former employee after it was found the company let the person go and replaced him with an intern it had taken on under the Government’s JobBridge job activation scheme.

A cleaner aged in her early 60s who lost her longstanding job over a burnt piece of toast has been awarded €25,000 for unfair dismissal.

A former Aldi worker, who claimed he was shouted at in front of customers to ‘move his ass’, has lost a claim for unfair dismissal against the company and now faces an extensive legal costs bill.

The Irish and British governments have signed an agreement to tackle cross-border employment abuse of migrant and other workers.

A Cork-based creche manager who was “ambushed” by her superiors with a series of complaints by co-workers has been awarded €40,000 by the Employment Appeals Tribunal.

Retail furnishing giant Ikea is counting the cost of sacking a bistro worker at its Dublin store for consuming a €1.25 milkshake without paying for it.

Dunnes Stores had no option but to sack a checkout assistant for selling alcohol to a 16-year-old schoolgirl who bought it on the instructions of an undercover garda, a judge has ruled.

The operator of the National Car Test centres has been criticised for conducting “a sham investigation” into the complaints of an employee who threatened to expose regular breaches of the company’s rules at one of its centres in Cork.